It was a bumpy journey, and after more than two hours, we finally arrived at the county seat. Chunxiu has been to the county town only a handful of times, and Xu Benshan has actually never been to the county town. Their place is far away from the county town, and transportation was inconvenient in the past. Later, shuttle buses became available, but the town can already buy the necessary things. Going to the county town seems It's not necessary either.
Xu Benshan has been in a miserable state for the past few years, and his family is in ruins. Now that he has a little money due to the compensation, he can finally turn over.
Relying on his experience many years ago, Xu Benshan took Chunxiu to the county hospital. After so many years, the county hospital seemed to have not changed much except for a few new buildings.
When we arrived at the hospital and registered, the doctor looked at him and scolded him: "You are so young, why can't you think about it so hard? Cutting your wrists is really a good idea!"
Chunxiu lowered her head, not daring to look into the doctor's eyes. The doctor opened the wound that had been treated at the township health center and said, "Look, look, how did you do it? Girl, you look like my family The girl is about the same age, how sad your parents would be if you were like this!"
"Yes, yes, doctor, please talk to her carefully and don't go to extremes!" Xu Benshan also agreed.
"You must be his husband. I'm not only talking about him, but also about you. Let her do everything. It's not easy for a woman in this life!" the female doctor continued.
"I...I'm not..." Xu Benshan hurriedly explained, but when he saw the doctor's stern eyes, he swallowed it back.
"No, it's nothing. Let me tell you, if her hand is cut off a little more, it will kill someone. If the wound is not treated well, it will become inflamed and suppurate, and the hand will be useless!" the doctor continued.
"Ah? Doctor, will my hand become useless?" Chunxiu knew she was afraid now.
"First reduce the inflammation for a few days, and then take good care of it. Do not touch the water, otherwise the wound will fester, become inflamed, and infect the entire hand." The doctor said.
Chunxiu was a little anxious and said, "Doctor, do you mean I have to be hospitalized?"
"It's best to be hospitalized. In the hospital, professional doctors will help you treat your wounds every day. Otherwise, it would be ugly to leave such a big scar!" The doctor pointed to the wound.
Chunxiu was a bit embarrassed. How much would it cost to be hospitalized? Her family was already poor, so where would she find the money if she went through all the trouble? Now she began to regret it. Since she didn't have the courage to cut herself to death, she shouldn't have done it. Such a stupid thing.
"Okay, good doctor, we will definitely cooperate with the treatment!" Xu Benshan saw Chunxiu's concerns and hurriedly responded to her.
The doctor immediately issued a hospitalization order, and Xu Benshan accompanied Chunxiu to go to the hospital.
In addition to spending a lot of money on things to be hospitalized, Chunxiu also had another worry: Xu Benshan was just here to buy things and would definitely go back today. What would he do if he went back alone? Unfamiliar with the place of birth.
"Uncle, I want to ask you something." Chunxiu whispered.
"Call me brother!" Xu Benshan's face sank.
"Brother, can you tell Sister Qiaozhen to stay with me in the hospital for a few days? I'm scared to be alone!" Chunxiu said.
Hearing this sweet voice, Xu Benshan felt happy and said, "Don't worry, Chunxiu, I brought you into the city and I will take you back with me. I won't leave you here alone!"
"Then will your wife be unhappy?" Chunxiu asked hurriedly.
"It's okay, it's okay. She is not like this. She is also a village doctor after all. It is her duty to save lives and heal the wounded!" Xu Benshan said.
Chunxiu was very grateful. She thought about the hospitalization fee and said, "Brother, the hospitalization fee must be very expensive, right?"
"Don't worry about this. Didn't your dad give you 5,000? Don't worry!" Xu Benshan felt that the girl in front of him must be very kind at heart. He is like this and still considers so many things.
Chunxiu felt reassured and felt happy. The doctor came to give her an infusion. After the infusion, she applied medicine to the wound. She asked the doctor if she could go out. The doctor said yes, but she had to stay in the hospital at night.
Xu Benshan took Chunxiu for a walk on the street. The two of them wandered aimlessly. They passed by a milk tea shop and saw many young people queuing up.
"What is that? Is it delicious?" Chunxiu asked curiously.
Xu Benshan looked at the brand and said, "This should be the milk tea that people in the city love to drink. Let me buy you a cup!"
"No, no, I won't drink. It's 9 yuan a cup. It's too expensive!" Chunxiu looked at the list and said.
"What are you afraid of? I don't drink it every day. I drink it once in a while. 9 yuan is not expensive!" Xu Benshan said, and got in line and asked Chunxiu to wait beside him.
After a while, Xu Benshan came out with two cups of milk tea and said, "Here, they said this is called pearl milk tea, and it's delicious!"
"Pearl milk tea? I think I heard Caifeng say that the pearls in it are delicious!" Chunxiu was as happy as a child.
"Try it quickly!" Xu Benshan handed Chunxiu a glass.
Chunxiu inserted the straw, took a sip, frowned, and said, "So that's what milk tea is, it tastes like milk and tea!"
"I sucked it really well!" Xu Benshan said while chewing, "I sucked one, it's slippery and quite delicious!"
Chunxiu also took a sip and said, "It's soft and delicious. You should be able to make this yourself. The tea we grow ourselves is much better than this!"
"Haha, when you go back and your hands are ready, you can make it and I'll taste it!" Xu Benshan said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll sell it to you for 9 yuan a cup, oh, no, discount, five yuan!" Chunxiu said and also laughed.
Xu Benshan stared at the girl in front of him blankly. Chunxiu rarely smiled on weekdays, and he had no contact with her. Now the girl standing in front of her, smiling so hard that she couldn't stand upright, was so beautiful.
The two stopped and stopped along the way and bought some food. Xu Benshan also bought toiletries for Chunxiu. Chunxiu, who was polite at first, has now become much closer to Xu Benshan.
When it got dark, the two of them returned to the hospital. Chunxiu seemed to be in a much better mood. In the hospital, the family members who accompanied the bed either rented a stool to lie next to them, or lay directly on the bed with the patient.
Xu Benshan went to ask and found out that a stool that turned out to be a bed cost 25 a night. In addition to being a little reluctant, he was also a little selfish and wanted to squeeze in and lie down together like other family members.
Xu Benshan went back empty-handed. Chunxiu asked curiously: "What's wrong? Didn't you rent it?"
"It's enough to rent it for 25 yuan a night. It's too expensive!" Xu Benshan said in a low voice.
"Huh? 25? So expensive?" Chunxiu was shocked by this number. If she stayed for a week, just renting a stool would cost a lot of money.
"It's okay. I'm a grown man. I just lie down on the bedside for a while when I'm sleepy!" Xu Benshan said with a smile.
Chunxiu said embarrassedly: "Brother, I'm sorry!"
"What are you sorry for? Don't say that. Just don't be stupid in the future!" Xu Benshan said.
"Well, not anymore!" Chunxiu nodded.
"You like that boy Xu Jiahang so much, have you...given everything to her?" Xu Benshan asked with a smile.
Chunxiu blushed. She knew what Xu Benshan meant and hurriedly said: "Brother, what are you talking about? We have nothing, and we haven't even held hands!"
Xu Benshan was overjoyed. This Chunxiu never had contact with men in the village, and had never had sex with Xu Jiahang. Could it be that she was still...
"There are many good men in this world, and Xu Jiahang is not the only one!" Xu Benshan said.
"A good man, maybe, but I am the daughter of a drug addict, where can I find a good man!" The smile on Chunxiu's face disappeared.
"Bah, bah, bah, what kind of daughter of a drug addict? Who will say that again and tear her mouth apart? You are you and your father is your father. Besides, your father took drugs more than ten years ago. He is already long gone now." I won’t smoke anymore!” Xu Benshan said excitedly.
With tears in her eyes, Chunxiu said: "You are the only one who says this. Others look at me like the plague. Why do I like Xu Jiahang? Because he is the only one who will not look down on me. I used to have low self-esteem. If Xu Jiahang can marry me, With the Xu family’s prestige in the village, no one will ever call me the daughter of a drug addict again.”
Xu Benshan reached out and patted Chunxiu. Chunxiu suddenly burst into tears, crying like a child, and then lay on Xu Benshan's shoulder, twitching.
"Don't cry. It affects other people's rest. Others think I'm bullying you!" Xu Benshan gently lifted her up, let her lie down, covered her with a quilt, and lay down beside the bed. After a while, she fell asleep. After riding in the car for a day, he was too tired.
It was almost the beginning of winter, and the temperature was very low at night. Xu Benshan was woken up by the cold and sat shivering. Chunxiu had not fallen asleep because she had too many things on her mind. Seeing Xu Benshan's appearance, she moved to the bed. Said: "Why don't you come up and sleep, squeeze in, and don't catch a cold!"
"No!" Xu Benshan was happy in his heart, but he still refused, "Aren't you afraid that you, a young girl, are lying together with a bad old man like me?"
"Haha, we are all wearing clothes, what is there to be afraid of? I am not afraid of a woman, what are you afraid of?" Chunxiu said.
Xu Benshan no longer hesitated. He had had this idea since he rented the stool. He took off his shoes and lay down gently next to Chunxiu. The two were back to back. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep. After a while , he turned around, and since the two of them were sharing the same quilt, his foot accidentally kicked Chunxiu, who immediately shrank her feet.
Xu Benshan felt a change in a certain part of his body. Looking at Chunxiu's back, she wanted to hug him, but he couldn't. The scent of the girl came, making him feel like he was about to explode, so he had to stretch out his hand. Get under the quilt and put out the fire yourself.
Chunxiu was still a little girl. She felt the movements of the person next to her and whispered: "Brother, what's wrong with you? You keep moving and I can't even sleep!"
Xu Benshan paused and said, "Brother, I feel a little uncomfortable. It's okay. I'll be fine soon."
"Are you feeling uncomfortable? Brother, what's wrong? Do you need my help?" Chunxiu turned around slowly.
"It's okay, it's okay. You can't help me now. I'll be fine soon." Xu Benshan said.
"Oh!" Chunxiu didn't care. He said that it was really not convenient for her to help him with his lower body.
Just now Chunxiu said that he wanted to help, which made Xu Benshan even more excited. He felt that his whole body was going to explode. He hurriedly stretched out his hand, adjusted his pants through the quilt, sat up and walked to the bathroom, otherwise he would end up in trouble later. It was embarrassing in the hospital bed.
Xu Benshan was released and flushed. Just when he was about to go back and lie down, the phone rang. The sound was particularly harsh at night. He looked over and saw that it was Liu Qiaozhen who pressed the answer button, quietly opened the door, and went to the hospital corridor to answer the phone. .
The corridor was empty and the echo was loud. Xu Benshan whispered: "Hello!"
"Xu Benshan, look what time it is now, where have you been fooling around?" Liu Qiaozhen's voice came.
"Didn't I tell you? I came to the county town to buy things, and I moved in before I even finished buying them!" Xu Benshan said.
"Xu Benshan, you are lying. It takes a whole day to buy something, and you don't even go back home, and you still have to stay overnight!" Liu Qiaozhen cursed.
"Didn't I see Wang Huaiqing's daughter in the car when I came? She came to the hospital alone. She cut her wrists two days ago, and there was no one to take care of her. I thought she was from the same village, so I stayed to take care of her. "Xu Benshan also knew that he couldn't deceive Liu Qiaozhen, so he simply stopped cheating.
"Ah? Cut your wrists? Why didn't I hear about it?" Liu Qiaozhen was shocked.
"You have been busy cleaning the house these two days and have not gone out. Of course you don't know about the family disputes between East and West!" Xu Benshan said.
"Oh, this child is pitiful. Then take good care of her and enlighten her!" Liu Qiaozhen said, feeling a little like crying. She thought of her Lingling again, who were all pitiful people.
Xu Benshan didn't expect Liu Qiaozhen to say this. He thought Liu Qiaozhen would make a big fuss with him knowing that he was taking care of a woman in the county town.
"It's quite pitiful, Qiaozhen, you are alone at home, close the door at night, I will be back in two days!" Xu Benshan was a little unreasonable and lowered his tone.
After making the phone call, he didn't dare to lie back on the bed again. If he kept doing this a few times, he would become useless.
Xu Caifeng told Xu Jiahang about Chunxiu's wrist slit. Xu Jiahang felt empty. Fortunately, he heard that nothing serious happened. He wanted to see Chunxiu, but Xu Caifeng stopped him.
"Brother, what's the point of going? What she wants is for you to marry her, can you?" Xu Caifeng asked.
Xu Jiahang fell on the stool. He couldn't. He was now married to Yang Xiaowei. He was responsible for Yang Xiaowei. He must be responsible for her. He could not let a girl bear the tragedy caused by her own negligence alone.
In the past few days, he found that he was actually a little obsessed with Yang Xiaowei, so he felt that he might have met love.
But Chunxiu, they grew up together. Although there is no love, there is always friendship. He knows that Chunxiu has had a hard life since he was a child. When he was a child, he saw Chunxiu being bullied by others. He once secretly swore that when he grew up, he would We need to take her away from this place and not let her family's mistakes affect her again.
Now, Chunxiu cut off her wrist because of her cruelty. Xu Jiahang's heart ached for a while. He didn't know what to do. It was difficult to advance and retreat.
"Where is she now?" Xu Jiahang asked Xu Caifeng.
"County hospital!" Xu Caifeng said.
"Oh, that's good, Caifeng, when she comes back, help me get 5,000 yuan for her. Let her cultivate herself well!" Xu Jiahang said, and went to get the money from his bag.
"Brother, you didn't do anything wrong. It was just wishful thinking on her part. Why did you give her money? Mom knew she would be unhappy!" Xu Caifeng hurriedly caught up to stop him.
